MC

Marc C.

SAP / Business Technology Director Americas

Glass, Ceramics & Concrete

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/27/2015

"Great DBMS with very little requirment for maintenance - Life expectancy is however limited"

3/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

Easy to understand and use tools (db management, 4GL, ABF...)

Works well with text terminal environment

Very stable on HPUX

Great community

Embedded C available out of the box

Lack of long term plans (change of owner a couple of years ago)

SQL not as powerfull as other DBMS (ORacle, MS SQL...)

Not supported by major ERP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

Lack of long term plans (change of owner a couple of years ago)

SQL not as powerfull as other DBMS (ORacle, MS SQL...)

Not supported by major ERP

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Recommendations to others considering Actian X:

Use the Open Source version and support

Not recommended to build business critical applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?

Stable DBMS and framework (client/server) supporting manufacturing processes

Connection with SAP Business Object

Live connection with SAP ECC 6 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MH

Mike H.

IMS Senior Database Specialist

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/2/2015

"Ingres retro review from the 90's"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

When I used it, Ingres was ahead of it's time for relational databases on a UNIX platform. Oracle was delivering vaporware, and Ingres delivered the goods with a tecnically superior product. It had a nice transaction manager and a gateway to the mainframe that no other products were offering. Their 4GL was an awesome development tool as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

The release I was using at the time had poor performance when timestamps were used in indexes. It also had sever lock escalation when doing mass deletes, however I think the SQL that was used was not very good either, trying to do mass deletes with a WHERE clause on several rows instead of using a cursor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Actian X:

Not having used it recently, I would only ensure that the future support and enhancements align with your business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?

The business problems were small - we were just moving an outdated mainframe system to UNIX. The subsequent systems that went in fulfilled the new business needs at a lower cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DP

David P.

Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/7/2015

"Lightweight and gets the job done"

3/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

Ingres is a very simple and easy to use database. It's lightweight and in turn performs well enough to support high volumes of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

I'd like the ability for it to save more queries, and have more tools (comparing to MSSQLServer which has many). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.